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ONE OF THE FEARS of rural legislators when the State of Virginia established “planning districts”—and told everyone that if they didn’t join they couldn’t get any grant goodies—was that a major consequence of “planning districts” would be little more than the establishment of another bureaucracy. State, local and federal bureaucracies were enough, insisted some holdouts from “regionalism.”
It’s still enough, members of the Rappahannock-Rapidan Planning District Commission made clear at their meeting last Thursday night at Grave’s Mountain Lodge at Syria, in Madison County. A regional bureaucracy has sprouted, to be sure, but the commissioners made it clear that they don’t intend to let it blossom unchecked.
The question came up over how
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